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Site Devoted to Afghanistan
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One of the most-visited Web sites devoted to Afghanistan is the product of a young man's curiosity about the homeland he fled when he was only six years old.

In 1979, following the Soviet invasion, Abdullah Qazi and his family escaped to Pakistan and then moved to the U.S. in 1980. As he grew older, Mr. Qazi, now 27, read everything he could about his country, its customs and its people. When he discovered the Internet, he didn't find much about Afghanistan, so he and his two brothers -- Mustafa, 29, and Mir, 23 -- decided...